Barbarian observes:
All natural selection does, is tend to eliminate the unfit, and change the alleles available to the population in the next generation. The second thing is the creative part, since it alters the genome of the population to be more fit. And that produces evolutionary novelty.
If you were right, then Hall's bacteria could never have evolved a new irreducibly complex enzyme system. But they did. You just collided head-on with reality, again.
And it also determines the allleles available for recombination and mutation in the next generation. Which is how those bacteria gradually evolved an efficient new system. Evolutionary novelty is driven by mutation and natural selection
Every new mutation in a population adds information. That goes on all the time. Would you like me to show you the math, again? But evolution, when it produces novel features, might increase information or reduce information. Creationists, as you have seen, generally have no idea what "information" means, and can't even calculate it.
God thought otherwise. Turns out He's right and you're wrong. Together, mutation and natural selection produce all those new features. Neither, by themselves, are capable of doing much. Which was Darwin's great discovery.
Here's a hint: If you want to quotemine a source, it's not a good idea to put out the link, because people can check on it. From the link you touted:
It is important to remember that natural selection has no plan, no memory, and no goal. It is a stochastic process, and has no intellect or creative power. Its cumulative effects over time, however, can be incredible. In this sense, it is like continental drift, a nonthinking process that produces incredible, beautiful, and complicated results.
http://www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios101/Selexio.htm
So if natural selection often tends to remove genetic variation, from where does all that new variation come? Mutation. Most of us have dozens of mutations not present in either parent. This shouldn't surprise you; you've been told before.
If you can't be good, try to be more careful.
All natural selection does, is tend to eliminate the unfit, and change the alleles available to the population in the next generation. The second thing is the creative part, since it alters the genome of the population to be more fit. And that produces evolutionary novelty.
That is a common misconception by evolutionists based on wishful thinking... not science.
If you were right, then Hall's bacteria could never have evolved a new irreducibly complex enzyme system. But they did. You just collided head-on with reality, again.
'Natural selection' can SOMETIMES remove the unfit from a population.
And it also determines the allleles available for recombination and mutation in the next generation. Which is how those bacteria gradually evolved an efficient new system. Evolutionary novelty is driven by mutation and natural selection
It can NEVER add information to the genome.
Every new mutation in a population adds information. That goes on all the time. Would you like me to show you the math, again? But evolution, when it produces novel features, might increase information or reduce information. Creationists, as you have seen, generally have no idea what "information" means, and can't even calculate it.
Natual selection is a losing proposition.
God thought otherwise. Turns out He's right and you're wrong. Together, mutation and natural selection produce all those new features. Neither, by themselves, are capable of doing much. Which was Darwin's great discovery.
Here's a hint: If you want to quotemine a source, it's not a good idea to put out the link, because people can check on it. From the link you touted:
It is important to remember that natural selection has no plan, no memory, and no goal. It is a stochastic process, and has no intellect or creative power. Its cumulative effects over time, however, can be incredible. In this sense, it is like continental drift, a nonthinking process that produces incredible, beautiful, and complicated results.
http://www.uic.edu/classes/bios/bios101/Selexio.htm
So if natural selection often tends to remove genetic variation, from where does all that new variation come? Mutation. Most of us have dozens of mutations not present in either parent. This shouldn't surprise you; you've been told before.
If you can't be good, try to be more careful.